The Enchanted Desna (1964)
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
- Released
- 1964-12-07
- Genres
- Drama, War, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yuliya Solntseva
- TMDB rating
- 5.4/10 from 16 votes
Cast
- Evgeniy Samoylov as Writer
- Vova Goncharov as Sashko
- Yevhen Bondarenko as Father
- Zinaida Kirienko as Mother
- Boris Andreyev as Platon
- Ivan Pereverzev as construction manager
- Iya Marks as probaba
- Grigori Zaslavets as Savka
- Vladimir Gusev as Kolodub
- Anatoli Yushko as Drobot
- Vyacheslav Voronin as Troyanda
- Ivan Zhevago as father Kirill